Description
A great way to learn about mathematics for students age 13 and over. Perfect for libraries, clubs and as prizes too. Funny and enjoyable stories, with visual puzzles throughout.
Getting and keeping teens interest in mathematics is difficult yet vital to their future. Ioanna Georgiou and Asuka Young have come up with a new approach that is based on telling stories from history – with a twist! Peculiar Deaths combines short stories about key mathematicians from history and how they died, with details of the mathematical advances they made. But one of the deaths is made up – but which one?
Can Beans Kill You? – Pythagoras
Death by Square Root – Hippasus
You should not be Disturbing my Circles! – Archimedes
What? A Woman Mathematician? Die! – Hypatia
A bit of Gambling Killed No-one, Ever – Gerolamo Cardano
A Very Rich Way to Die – Tycho Brahe
Death by Time Calculation – Abraham De Moivre
Just a Bit Too Young – Evariste Galois
At the Mental Asylum – Andre Bloch
Self-imposed Starvation and other Difficulties – Kurt Gödel
